Nearly 100,000 People Sign Petition Calling for L.A. Mayor’s Resignation

More than 92,000 people have signed an online petition demanding the immediate resignation of Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass over her “gross mismanagement” of the devastating wildfires in the region.

The Change.org petition accuses Bass of mishandling the wildfires, noting she was not even in the country when the fires first broke out. Bass was 7,400 miles away in Ghana at the inauguration of the country’s president when the fires started raging on Tuesday.

“We . . . urgently call for the immediate recall of [Bass] due to her gross mismanagement and failure to effectively respond to the devastating 2025 fires in and around the city,” reads the petition, which was started Wednesday.